Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about what happened during the Holocaust. We will learn what a genocide is, and then learn about the genocide that happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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5 Questions

Q1.
In which European country is the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau located in today?
Germany
Hungary
Correct answer: Poland
Slovakia
Q2.
What name is given to the mass murder of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War?
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Concentration Camps
Fascism
Correct answer: The Holocaust
Q3.
What word is used to define "actions which aim to destroy a religious, ethnic or national group."
Emigration
Correct answer: Genocide
Ghettos
Murder
Q4.
How did most victims of the Nazi genocides arrive at Auschwitz?
By plane
By ship
Correct answer: By train
On foot
Q5.
Why did Primo Levi say there were 'no true witnesses' of the holocaust?
Because he believed artefacts like shoes could tell us more about what happened.
Because people did not want to talk about what happened during the holocaust because it was so terrible.
Because so many of the sources were produced by the perpetrators of the crimes rather than the victims.
Correct answer: Because the witnesses of the full horror of the holocaust died so it is only survivors can describe their own experiences.

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